Witness Roy Bramwell told the re-opened inquest into Aboriginal man Mulrunji Doomadgee鈥檚 death on March 8 that police threatened to 鈥渃ome after him鈥, as they crushed his original damning witness statement and threw it in the bin.
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Western Australia needs a broad and inclusive mass movement to stop the Barnett government鈥檚 push to privatise public services and smash public sector workers鈥 conditions.
James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University鈥檚 Earth Institute, admits he鈥檇 prefer to spend his time out of the public eye, building on the decades of scientific research that has won him a reputation as the world鈥檚 top climate scientist.
Lake Cowal, located between the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan rivers that feed into the Murray Darling basin, is the sacred heartland of the Wiradjuri country.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited Australia over March 9-11. Unsurprisingly, the issue of asylum seekers was the leading concern for the federal Labor government, the corporate media and refugee advocates alike.
Well, now I really feel safe. The Australian defence department has finally started to buy up vital necessities to protect this country. Oil paintings, comfy handmade chesterfield lounges, memberships to exclusive golf clubs鈥 You name it; our defence department now has it. I guess you can鈥檛 underestimate the usefulness of a well-rested backside and a perfect golf swing during hand-to-hand combat.
More than 40 people marked International Women鈥檚 Day on March 8 with a celebration of women鈥檚 music at the Newcastle Resistance Centre.
Bridget Chappell, an Australian solidarity worker in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, was arrested by occupying Israeli forces on February 7 and threatened with deportation for simply engaging in peaceful protests alongside Palestinians.
Socialist queer rights campaigner Rachel Evans, who helped re-launch Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) in 2004 when the same-sex marriage ban was touted, has been preselected on the Socialist Alliance's New South Wales Senate ticket.
On February 25, the Senate rejected the Greens鈥 amendment to the marriage act that would have seen discrimination on the basis of gender and sexuality removed from the legislation.
鈥淪ince 2008, Cuba has begun footing the bill for the country鈥檚 transgender men and women to undergo gender reassignment surgery鈥, Baywindows.com said on March 10.
On March 7, Iraqi national elections were held. The results are not expected to be known for months. With 鈥渙nly鈥 43 people killed in related violence, the Western media hailed them as a step forward in developing a 鈥渄emocratic鈥 Iraq. Eric Ruder looks at the background to US plans to create a stable client state in the oil-rich nation. The article below is abridged from .
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